There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Introducing the Morning Star Women's Readers & Supporters Group
KATE RAMSDEN explains why Scottish women decided to set up a women's RSG and invites all sisters to attend its next webinar on Tuesday
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THE seeds of the Morning Star Women’s Readers and Supporters Group (RSG) began to germinate at the Scottish Trade Union (STUC) Congress in 2022 in Aberdeen. Specifically at the Morning Star fringe. I was chairing and we had two great women speakers on the panel.
It was well attended and lively. Lots of questions and discussion. However, it was noticeable that audience consisted almost entirely of men. In fact there was only one woman. By then I was a member of the Morning Star Scotland Readers and Supporters Group (RSG) and when I thought about it, I realised that it was predominantly male too.
These men, young and not so... are excellent comrades who were and who remain totally supportive of women’s issues. They made us feel welcome in their company. However the subject matter of the Readers and Supporters and the Our Class, Our Culture events was often of greater interest to men than to women and it was noticeable that men attended in greater numbers.
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